How can I protect my kid from online sleaze?
SHADOW HER WHEREVER SHE GOES, ALL DAY LONG. There are 412 million to 8 billion pages of porn on the Internet, depending on whom you talk to, and children can stumble across them at home, a friend’s house, a cyber cafe, even a library or school. All you can really do is encourage an open dialogue, explain why they should avoid such smut, and do your best to block the sites on your home computer. If your daughter is preteen, set your home page to Yahooligans.com or Jeeves for Kids (askforkids.com); they pull up only Grated material. Older kids are another story; they may actually seek out the dirty stuff. Use the parental controls in Mac OS X and Windows Vista (due out this fall) to limit their surfing to sites you deem okay. You can also buy filtering software, such as CyberPatrol ($40, cyberpatrol.com, for Windows) or Content Barrier ($70, content barrier.com, Macintosh).
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